Decided today to install Gentoo, but I have already run into a bit of trouble. It is my understanding that you need an active Internet connection to install Gentoo, the problem is I don't know how to connect to our wireless network. I ran ifconfig and some really weird stuff came up, instead of the usual eth0, wlan0 it comes up with the somewhat random enp2s0 and wlp0s18f2u6.
I assume that wlp0s18f2u6 is my USB wireless adapter (D-Link DWA-125). The wireless network uses WEP 128bit encryption.

Can any of you guys tell me how to get connected?

Note: Using a minimal installation cd.

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Last edited by c0der935 on Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:32 pm; edited 3 times in total

I'm going to eventually make something more Gentoo specific using sysrescuecd instead of ubuntu/debian variants. i also have worked through this with adjustments for btrfs on a test virtual machine. id really like to get more flavors to gentoo going also, but have many projects running at once.